“It is not so difficult to make the Germans vote Nazi as it is to make them feel Nazi,” Emil Lengyel said last night in an address on “Hitler and the German Situation” at the College of Arts and Sciences of Columbia University.
“The Hitlerites have set their hearts from the beginning on getting hold of the loyalty of the radicals,” Lengyel declared. “They proclaimed that theirs was a real Socialism while that of the Socialists and Communists was a spurious one. They told their followers that real social feeling was inherent in the constructive race of Germans and not in the destructive tribe of Jews, out of whose midst there had come forth Karl Marx with a creed of wreck and ruin. The declared that Marxism was a Jewish conspiracy to ensnare the ‘Aryan’ and make him subservient to Judah’s will.”
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